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Designer Q&A with Rose Campbell
Rose Campbell has been featured in our Designer Muse series before, but as she’s just taken over as head of design and marketing at Newmor, we thought it was a… Read More >
The Magic Dinner
“The thought . . . called up the flavors of an elaborate and bold cuisine, . . . an incomparable experience.” – Italo Calvino, Under the Jaguar Sun How often… Read More >
Jim Biddulph & Iain Monteith, Loader Monteith Architects
Developing a relationship between practice and education is a bedrock of architecture as a profession. But whilst RIBA’s CPD curriculum is designed to keep things fresh for practicing architects through… Read More >
A Conversation Between: Jim Biddulph & Field Day Studio
Marrying rich design concepts with tasteful material and colour palettes is no simple task. Creating spaces that are immediately warm and welcoming yet oozing with style and detail is in… Read More >
Women in Lighting: The Extraordinary Light
Details have the task of expressing that which the basic design requires in that particular point of the object: union or disjunction, tension or lightness, friction, solidity, fragility (…). Details,… Read More >
A Busy Time
It’s currently a very busy period in the development of standards and regulations. In previous columns I’ve mentioned the proposed revision of the UK’s Furniture & Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Regulations,… Read More >
Women in Lighting: Light as a Material
“We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.” – Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise… Read More >
Women in Lighting: See the Light, Feel the Light
“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.” Sometimes I wonder how many people are engaged in the process of designing a space and… Read More >
Home Office with Phil Reynolds
Through the various lockdowns (I’m sure we’re all tired of that word) many of us found we could continue to do our jobs successfully from home. Now the country has… Read More >
A conversation between: Jim Biddulph & Bryan Oknyansky, Dexter Moren Associates
Not many of us start on our career paths before even completing our higher education, let alone starting it. That’s certainly something you’d say for the notoriously rigorous and involved… Read More >
Fire Retardants with Phil Reynolds
I thought for this instalment I would revisit the subject of furnishings fire safety, and the other question I get asked a lot – why do we have to use… Read More >
Meet Design Guild Mark Founder Jonathan Hindle
Each designer awarded a Design Guild Mark for a piece of their work can be confident that they have created a design which demonstrates design excellence. The Design Guild Mark judging… Read More >
BS 6396 with Phil Reynolds
I thought this month I’d introduce one of our newest standards: BS 6396:2022 – ‘Electrical systems in furniture. Specification’ The standard has a long history within the office sector, where… Read More >